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Performing a Geography of Asian America: The Chop Suey Circuit

2011; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 55; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1162/dram_a_00052

ISSN

1531-4715

Autores

SanSan Kwan,

Tópico(s)

Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics

Resumo

The Chop Suey Circuit describes Asian American cabaret performers who toured the US from the 1930s through the '50s. Performing the era's popular songs and dances, these “Orientals” were novel yet familiar, exotic yet accessible. At a time of war, internment, and segregation they simultaneously solidified and challenged racial cartographies that would emplace race.

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